Disney’s ‘Shang-Chi’ breaks record for Labor Day weekend
The Boys & Girls Club of San Gabriel Valley hosted a private screening of ‘Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings’ over Labor Day weekend.“Shang-Chi” also had the second-highest three-day opening weekend of the pandemic, after “Black Widow.” All the films showing in all North American theaters took in a combined $134.6 million, the best Labor Day weekend since 2014, Comscore data showed.
The Labor Day holiday is traditionally a slow one for the film industry, as consumers are usually distracted by kids returning to school and the start of college football. The movie business is still coping with the pandemic, with swaths of theaters in Asia and Latin America closed. Disney took a gamble releasing “Shang-Chi” only in theaters and on this weekend. It’s the second major movie this year Disney has debuted solely in cinemas, instead of making its movies simultaneously available on Disney+ for free or for a $30 fee.How do you turn a cliché-ridden comic book character into a distinctly Asian American superhero? Tackle the tropes one by one.
The Marvel picture tells the story of Shang-Chi, played by Simu Liu, who is “drawn into the mysterious Ten Rings organization,” according to a description from the studio. It has a 92% approval“Candyman,” a thriller from Universal Pictures, took the No. 2 spot at the box office this weekend, in its second week out. It had $13.4 million in sales domestically. Another Disney film, “Free Guy,” which is also only in theaters, took in $11.2 million in its fourth week.
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